techMEDIA TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION ISSUE-i 32 • JUNE 2017 Time for T2 in Germany Plus • MAKING DATA PRIVACY A PRIORITY • WHAT’S IN 3GPP RELEASE 14? • NEW PRODUCTION SYSTEM AT RTBF and more... tech.ebu.ch I love it when a plan comes tech together! Issue 32-i • June 2017 3 Network Technology Simon Fell, Director, EBU Seminar 2017 Technology & Innovation - Multiplatform Production 4 New to the team As I write these words we’re deep into Workflows: as we adapt to the 5 Metadata workshop; the final stages of preparing the EBU multiplatform world, we need to EBU-TT updated Technology & Innovation workplan study software for production and 6 3GPP Release 14 for the next two years. We will be look at innovation in content asking the Technical Assembly to creation and production 8 5G in media endorse this important document in technologies, as well as the new production Stuttgart on 8-9 June. buildings in which PSM will 9 Promoting DTT Preparing the workplan is both a operate. Data 10 DVB-T2 in Germany challenging and a rewarding - : there are a range of metadata experience, as it gives us a chance to issues to be solved, along with data 12 NUMPROD 2.0 at take stock of the work we’re doing analytics and the use of big data in RTBF and examine how we can best serve media; this also extends into areas 14 Data at EBU Members you, our Members. While the process such as artificial intelligence and is led by the Technical Committee, machine learning, where we must 15 Broadcasting we have also sought to involve our keep pace with the leading global milestones Technical Liaison Officers and those platforms. 16 TV 50 years from now who are active in our working - Cloud and IP Infrastructures: 17 Updates from ABU groups. new live IP infrastructure, remote and DVB The aim has been to identify the production, use of cloud systems in trends in media technology that are production and distribution, and 18 Data privacy of most relevance for our Members virtualization of today’s studio 19 In the spotlight: and subsequently define the focus hardware. Galina Fedorova areas for our activities. In a world of - Media Cyber Security: we need rapidly changing technologies, the to build on the recommendations Cover Story: March 2017 saw the launch digital transformation of our industry we have already published, to look of the DVB-T2 platform in Germany, delivering HD services enhanced with and the subsequent impact on public at cloud security and also work HbbTV (see page 10). Our cover photo service media operations are internationally with other groups, shows Bayerischer Rundfunk’s Munich- uppermost in our minds. including through the World Freimann transmission tower, used for DAB+, DVB-T2 HD and LTE eMBMS While I urge you to consult the Broadcasting Unions, to encourage trials by BR and IRT. (Photo: Ekkehard workplan itself on our website, I’d industry-wide adoption. Winkler/IRT) like to outline here the broad strokes. The above will be set out in more We’ve aligned our activities under six detail in Stuttgart, where we will also thematic areas: have an opportunity to thank our Editor-in-Chief: Simon Fell - User Experience: here we address Members, without whose valuable Managing Editor: Eoghan O'Sullivan the need for increased efforts we could not achieve all of Email: [email protected] Tel. +41 22 717 27 05 personalization, the focus of our this. PEACH project, assist in the Finally, if you want to have a little Design: Louise Tait Printed on FSC certified paper by transition to UHDTV, and examine fun and are lucky enough to have New Goff n.v. the value – or otherwise – of VR/ access to an Amazon Echo, then you AR/MR. should try out a new tool we have © European Broadcasting Union - Distribution: this covers developed based on the Eurovision All rights reserved. The reproduction everything from spectrum through Song Contest. You can now ask of articles in tech-i is authorized to broadband/online delivery, the Alexa who won the contest in any only with the written permission of the publishers. The responsibility for positioning of broadcaster given year and also hear the song in views expressed in tech-i rests solely requirements vis-à-vis upcoming question. Something to keep you with the authors. 5G standards, and, of course, occupied until next year’s contest! digital radio. P.S. Well done Portugal! 2 tech-i | tech.ebu.ch | June 2017 NTS 2017 participants will find out how IP networks have been implemented by Google at YouTube Spaces. Centre of the universe for IP-based production LOOKING AHEAD TO THE EBU NETWORK TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR 2017. For two days in June every year, event programme is a panel session presentations on how IP is used in Geneva becomes the centre of the on Day 1 that will take a multilayered Sky’s master control room and for universe for network technology look at “The State of Live and IP Google’s YouTube Spaces facilities. in media production. The EBU Production”. An introductory With a session on cloud and Network Technology Seminar has presentation by BBC head of virtualization, a round table been growing annually, to the point production architecture Mike Ellis discussion on security issues, a set where last year’s event was full to will be followed by three discussions, of demonstrations showcasing the capacity, with 160 participants. The each bringing a new set of experts latest in dematerialized broadcast 2017 edition, on 20-21 June, looks to the podium. The discussions will functionalities, and a full morning set to match or even – if additional move progressively down the IP of in-depth tutorials, it really is space can be found – beat that production layers, from controlling an unmissable event for media record. the facility, to the devices, and finally professionals working in this field. The hot topic for NTS 2017 is likely to the network itself. (EBU Members will be able to access to be SMPTE 2110. The standard, Another highlight of Day 1 will videos of all NTS 2017 presentations which will be at the heart of live and be a set of five use cases showing a few days after the event finishes.) IP production for years to come, is how a variety of leading media A Eurovision Academy Master Class expected to be ratified sometime organizations are tackling the on “Preparing your move to Live- this year. Many of those who are challenges of moving to IP in IP TV Production” on the two days involved in drafting SMPTE ST 2110 production. Swedish Radio will share immediately following the Network will be present for NTS 2017, so it’s a their audio over IP experiences; Technology Seminar 2017 offers a wonderful opportunity to gain early there will be updates from BBC’s chance to get even more value from insights from the experts. Cardiff Central Square project and the trip to Geneva. The centrepiece of the impressive RTL City BCE in Luxembourg; and tech.ebu.ch/nts2017 Farewell Félix At the end of April 2017, we said goodbye to Félix Poulin, who has returned to his home country to take up the position of senior manager of new broadcast technologies at CBC/Radio-Canada in Montreal. We wish him every success with this new challenge and thank him for all that he contributed to the team over the past six years, particularly in leading EBU Technology & Innovation work in the domain of networks and IP. tech-i | tech.ebu.ch | June 2017 3 New to the team THE FIRST HALF OF 2017 BROUGHT A NUMBER OF ADDITIONS TO THE EBU TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION TEAM. OUR NEW EXPERT ON RADIO, BEN POOR, WAS INTRODUCED IN THE LAST ISSUE OF TECH-I; AND BELOW WE MEET THREE MORE NEW ARRIVALS. THE SCRUM MASTER Aurélie Boiteux comes to the EBU with a background in software engineering, which she studied in France. She has worked in the banking and telecoms industries in both France and Switzerland, serving as an agile software engineer, project manager and scrum master. It is in this last role that she joined the software team at EBU T&I. Scrum is an agile framework for completing complex projects, used particularly in the software domain. The scrum master ensures that the methodology is well understood and correctly applied, to ensure maximum benefits for the team. She functions as a process owner, teacher, coach and facilitator. Aurélie is working with our PEACH team to co-develop tools that will allow EBU Members to deliver personalized media services and experiences. (Read more about PEACH in issue 31 of tech-i and at tech.ebu.ch/personalization.) THE RESEARCHER Paola Sunna is always looking Patrick Wauthier, Paola Sunna to the future. Her career so far has and Aurélie Boiteux. involved working on the boundaries of what is possible with media the Italian Prize for Innovation in and television in several countries technology in a wide range of Information Communication & around the world. He began his domains: from video coding and Media Technology for an augmented working life as a sound engineer in image quality to user interfaces, reality application. the broadcast and music industries web technologies and immersive She started a new adventure at but was driven to swap seats by his experiences. She studied Electronic the EBU earlier this year, focusing belief in the importance of the fourth Engineering at Turin Polytechnic on the cutting edge of immersive estate and his passion for radio. and also received an MBA in 2005.